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Every other app on my apple tv gives a crystal clear picture via my SONIC fiber connection hardwired to it. However the netflix app gives an abysmal picture as if I was streaming 720i to my tv. It's so bad that some scenes are nearly unwatchable because of the pixelation and the blurry picture. Just on a whim I fired up my Samsung's native netflix app which is wirelessly streaming at 11mbps and the picture is GORGEOUS! To be clear every other app is sending amazing quality through every permutation of the changes I made below. the only app thats struggling is Netflix.
I tried this and no change. Isn't it odd that its this one app and only on this platform? I honestly just watch the tvs native app... I can see the info on what I'm actually getting and it makes a huge difference in the viewing experience. I guess this is just a dead end. Sadly I guess it no longer "just works".
If uninstalling the Netflix app did not make a difference that would point the finger at your network providing adequate coverage which should not be confused with network speed. To test network coverage, use a tool such as iStumbler to check the signal strength where your Apple TV is located. Of course also remember to re-cycle the power on your modem and router too and to check for any modem & router firmware updates.
I have an 49XD8099 with Android 6.0.1. Simply put, to watch "The OA" from Netflix in HDR is unbearable. It's like if they added a wall of fog. Disabling the HDR the image improves considerably, still being a bit washed out. Other shows, when watched in HDR, don't look better either, so much that I decided to have a video mode with HDR off for Netflix only.
I must says that the HDR quality of various new Netflix videos quite improved. I am not sure if the Android TV updates and/or the fact that I watch Netflix via Apple TV 4K helped as well. So, to me it isn't a big issue anymore.
Secondly - im just going though a few posts that have been missed recently and found this one - Reading through, I am unsure on how to help you to be honest - other than suggesting that you choose the non-hdr version of OA
HDR on TVs that doesn't meet the HDR specifications will always look awful and never will be HDR. Just like DD with just 2 speakers is not exactly a DD. And the idea of marketing TVs as HDR while they are not is just a bad idea. Sure, they can process HDR signal but display can't reproduce it in a way that it should look.
I believe it is possible on some 4K HDR content on Netfix.... Or was it Amazon, im now unsure. Basically you could choose the 1080p version over 4K HDR version instead due to it being in another category. I did it not long ago.
I couldn't find any way for Netflix. It is also not possible on a system level to disable HDR. At least not for ATV1. Maybe @Jecht_Sin or someone else has an idea how to achieve that. I think on ATV2 there is an option, see above quote and link to FlatpanelsHD.
The quality standards that is followed by netflix is just great and appreciate teh type of contetn being posted on their sites!!! thumbs up. [Link removed by moderator] is also similar to netflix where one can watch movies,cartoons,daily soaps anytime they feel like.!!
- After posting this I had a chat with Netflix, and no, there are no options to disable HDR in the player. The most one can do, from the settings in the web browser, is to reduce the available bandwidth, so that it will stream at 1080p. - The other option is to simply disable the HDR in the settings for a channel, but that disables it everywhere.
Still the issue is mostly with "The OA" (which I could just avoid watching for this reason and for the other more important reason that it is a stupid show. What a waste of time). Other HDR videos in Netflix look much better, and "Grand Tour" in Amazon looks amazing. So do the HDR demo downloaded from the internet at full bit rates (and they look awful with HDR disabled).
I must also say that Netflix streaming quality, in my opinion, can be disappointing. Many UHD videos look granulated. I have a fiber connection so it isn't a bandwidth issue. I am honestly a bit surprised. Even Youtube videos look better!
Sorry, sometime the English words flips in my brain. I meant an image mode. Then I have got also confused with the inputs (like HDMI 2 vs App (Video) ). Anyway, from Android changing the HDR to NO in a image mode (like custom) it puts HDR NO in all modes.
But do these pricier plans actually improve the quality of video streaming? A Wall Street Journal investigation recently answered this question with the help of Prof. Nick Feamster, a University of Chicago expert on the performance and security of communications networks, in a collaboration that both informs consumers and advances science.
While video providers such as Netflix, Amazon and YouTube can collect data on the quality that users receive through their software, ISPs and outside researchers are in the dark. With the help of the Wall Street Journal, the researchers recruited more than 60 households, collected information about their internet service, and installed a monitor of the data passing through their network. But challenges remained.
The work led to a research paper and a new tool called Net Microscope, which infers video streaming quality metrics such as startup delay and resolution in real time from the encrypted data stream. By gathering data from more than 200,000 video sessions from the volunteer homes, the team trained a model that that can look at encrypted data and identify which streams are from Netflix, YouTube, Amazon and Twitch, as well as the quality that end users experience.
From there, the researchers could finally answer the question posed by the Wall Street Journal : How do these services perform at different internet speeds? The study found that streaming video performance plateaus long before the upper-tier plans offered by ISPs, with plans above 100 megabits-per-second only marginally improving startup delays and resolution, even when multiple devices are viewing videos simultaneously.
Like the Wall Street Journal project, many of these research areas and policy issues require creating new software and systems that can collect data and measure performance in the real world. From the lens of his new role at the Center for Data and Computing, Feamster sees this project as the beginning of what he hopes will be more work at the intersection of data science, public policy and investigative journalism.
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The Redmond, Washington-based tech giant has played an outsized role in the development and importance of quality assurance across the industry. Microsoft was the first major company to come up with a specialized testing role which went well beyond manual testing.
Devs were good at building complex systems, and could help SDET a lot. Our SDET team had been building an integration testing system for months, and progress was slow. Our team really needed this system, as manual tests were taking too long. Finally, one of the senior engineers proposed that devs join in to help build this system, as one team. Two weeks later, with the lead of experienced devs, a system was up and running. This got me thinking; would the team not work better without the dev/test division? We had just proved it did.
The elephant in the room: some devs looked down on the SDET role. Although not everybody did, it was clear that many devs regarded SDET work as less challenging than their own. SDETs also knew they could have better career options by switching to a dev role.
When I joined the Skype for Web team, we initially did two-week sprints, and followed the usual Scrum processes. We also had a split of software engineers and QA engineers. However, our shipping pace was every two weeks, but we wanted to ship more frequently.
In the middle of 2014, Microsoft formally retired the SDET role and introduced the SE role. The inspiration was apparently a larger web team at Microsoft, Bing. From Ars Technica, in 2014:
How did this transition work out? From what I gather, it went fine. The change made a lot of sense for teams that ship on a daily basis. And teams within Microsoft that ship weekly or monthly are increasingly rare, as Microsoft also leans into the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. Of course, Microsoft continues to be a vendor for the Windows operating system family, and the Surface tablet. These are both areas where the approach to quality needs to be different to that of SaaS products.
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I gathered details on the approach to QA from current or former engineers and engineering managers at each of these companies to confirm findings \u2013 thank you to everyone who helped. We have a lot to go through, so let\u2019s get to it:
The SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test) role was one that Microsoft pioneered across the tech industry. They are software engineers who focused on writing automated tests; building and maintaining testing systems. The only difference between an SDET and a software development engineer (SDE) is that SDETs didn\u2019t generally write production code: they wrote test code, working in the same team as SDEs.
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